|
|
Biography |
|
|
Alberto Zucconi, a clinical psychologist is a former student and collaborator of the late Dr. Carl Rogers, one of the founding fathers of Humanistic Psychology and originator of the Client-Centered Therapy and the Person Centered Approach, a scientifically formulated paradigm that has impacted the fields of psychology, education and management.
Dr. Zucconi is the president of the Person-Centered Approach Institute (IACP), a non-profit international organization, co-founded with Carl Rogers and Charles Devonshire and dedicated to research in human behaviour, the promotion of health and the training of professionals. IACP is a World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for research, training and consulting in Health Promotion at the workplace in Italy and the Host Institution for the SOLVE programs of the International Labour Office (ILO) in Italy.
Dr. Zucconi was a faculty member of the Western Behavioural Science Institute (WBSI) in La Jolla, CA., a senior staff member of the Carl Rogers’ Peace Institute that has organized with the United Nations University for Peace cross-cultural communication and conflict resolution meetings with heads of state and diplomats. Dr. Zucconi has been working internationally for 35 years as a trainer, lecturer and consultant for public and private organizations and is currently teaching Client Centered Therapy and the Person Centered Approach, at the post graduate level at the University of Siena (Italy), faculty of medicine. He has authored several articles and books focused on psychology, psychotherapy and health promotion and designed and directed various research projects. Dr. Zucconi is a fellow of the International Leadeship Forum (ILF) and a fellow and Trustee of the World Academy of Art and Science (WAAS).
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Abstract |
|
|
|
|
The Psychology of Denial: Forms of self inflicted blindness in the Anthropocene Era |
|
|
|
|
|
We live in a period of globalization and growing complexity and need new and effective ways to cope with our fast paced changing realities in order to meet our present and future challenges. New capacities of our ways of knowing are required. New ways to become aware on how we construe our experiences of what we call and percieve as reality: the relationship with ourselves, the others, the world.
Research show that people who develop more fully their potentialities (their individuality) have more self-efficacy, resilience, self-esteem and are able to cope better with adversities, are more resistant to stressors and are also more respectful and helpful with their fellow human beings.
We need to foster a new psychological literacy for billions of people, a sort of psychological compass, a needed systemic way of being to navigate in the rippling currents of change.
|
|
|
|
|